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nidi
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04/03/04 - 06:19 PM

4 year old kid gets SCID what organism is the causative agent?
adenovirus
herpes
hepadna
picorna

anne
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04/03/04 - 06:21 PM

picorna?

nidi
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04/03/04 - 06:23 PM

thanks

asmi
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04/03/04 - 07:20 PM

do you meant that due to picorna virus infection she got SCIDS ??
or did u meant most common infection in SCIDS ??

nidi
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04/04/04 - 06:30 AM

causatve agent means something that causes a disease.in this case the 4 year old gets scid @ age 4.so what caused it?thats the q.

asmi
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04/04/04 - 11:21 AM

Man you sound a kind of rude smiling face

but anyways thanks for the Q

inkspot
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05/08/08 - 02:48 AM

ohh there can be a viral etiology to SCID? i didnt know about it !

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mukho
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05/08/08 - 08:00 AM

Why all this confusion about SCID...its a genetic disease...can be both autosomal and x linked, but isnt caused by any infectious etiology ...
Nidi-maybe the ques actually meant the commonest infective organism afflicting SCID patients, as asmi was suggesting

Tiff
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05/08/08 - 01:44 PM

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causatve agent means something that causes a disease.in this case the 4 year old gets scid @ age 4.so what caused it?thats the q.

SCIDS isn't caused by infection. Infection is a consequence of it. It's caused by genetic disorder. The agent that most commonly presents are usually fungal like Pneumocystis carinii. But since your list of answer choices only has viruses, I would have to say herpesvirus would be the most common virus that presents. CMV is popular in these kids.

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